Midwifery Learning Collaborative:
Team Kentucky
Participants in the Institute for Medicaid Innovation's three-year Midwifery Learning Collaborative
funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Institute for Medicaid Innovation
The Institute for Medicaid Innovation (IMI) is a national 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan research, policy, and community power building organization focused on providing innovative solutions that address important clinical, research, and policy issues in Medicaid through multi-stakeholder engagement, research, data analysis, education, quality improvement initiatives, and dissemination and implementation activities.
IMI is currently funded 100% through research grants, contracts, and charitable contributions. IMI does not lobby or advocate and is not a membership-based or trade association.
Midwifery Learning Collaborative
The national Medicaid and Midwifery Learning Collaborative (MLC) is an intensive, three-year initiative, led by the Institute for Medicaid Innovation (IMI) and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Five state-based teams (Arizona, California, Kentucky, Michigan, and Washington), selected from a competitive application process, receive technical assistance and guidance from IMI and a dedicated national advisory committee to develop sustainable initiatives to advance midwifery-led models of care for those enrolled in Medicaid.
Each team consists of leaders and innovators representing four key groups: state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid health plans, community-based organizations, and provider groups, including midwives of all credentials. IMI’s learning collaborative offers individualized team support with the goal of leveraging the underutilized midwifery-led model of care to address disparities and improve birth equity.
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Source: Institute for Medicaid Innovation. 2021. “Opportunities for Medicaid Stakeholders to Advance Midwifery-led Models of Care”
Midwifery Learning Collaborative Partners:
Midwifery Learning Collaborative
Team Kentucky - Partners
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This website was developed by Team Kentucky as part of their participation in the national Medicaid and Midwifery Learning Collaborative, led by IMI with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The content of this website is solely the creation and ownership of Team Kentucky and does not represent IMI or the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Visit www.medicaidinnovation.org/womens-health/#MLC for more information on the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s Midwifery Learning Collaborative.